BMS released

[Naldo]

Hi guys,  I have not been around for the last couple of weeks and here is the reason why...

I am proud to announce the public release of Falcon BMS.  Any flight simmers here will remember the original Falcon 4.0 released way back in 1998.
We the BMS team have put years of work into this release to give the public the most realistic hardcore F-16 sim available, and best of all..... Its free.

BMS boasts the most accurate flight model ever seen in a commercially available product. Beware, This is not a game you can just boot up and play.
Its a full on study sim, containing 5+ manuals with thousands of pages...


As I said, It is free, all that is required is the original Falcon 4 cd (I can help if needed here)

If you need any info or help just ask me

Here is our site, please have a look around the articles etc  http://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/

Part 1 of a review by SIMHQ   http://www.simhq.com/


Some videos...

Video 1 is just a fan made one.
Video 2 is one of many virtual squadrons flying online
Video 3 A users POV of a mission... (Might be slightly boring if you don't know whats going on etc)

Some info from our front page....




We're excited about the release of Falcon BMS and hope that it will help revive the Falcon 4 community. We've put years of time and effort into this release and hope you enjoy it. To help get you familiar with some of the new features and enhancements, we've written a number of articles and will be adding more as time permits. Enjoy the site!

What is Falcon 4.0?

If you're new to Falcon 4.0, ("F4" for short), F4 is a combat flight simulator originally developed and released December 12, 1998 by MicroProse. It models the Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block 50/52 in a full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula. F4 has been popular among combat sim pilots due to its dynamic war campaign engine, detailed aircraft avionics, and multi-player capabilities. Continual development of the simulation by community members has allowed F4 to live on years after the MicroProse studios were shut down and official development of the sim ceased.

Who are we?

Benchmark Sims is one of the few remaining F4 development groups comprised of "community members". Our first beta release for an F4 mod was in September of 2003. We've done our best to add still more improvements to F4 in the meanwhile. "Falcon BMS" is now the official name of our community mod for the original Falcon 4.0.

What have we accomplished?

BMS has worked on an array of features and our goal with the articles is to try and bring back that same excitement the old MicroProse developer's notes gave us all years ago. We could just say something like "we've coded a new flight model" but without any documentation, there would be no appreciation as to just how difficult it was, how long it took to get right, or how detailed it is. We think some of our features will make your jaw drop--it does ours! Some of those features include:

Graphics
3d cockpit
Terrain engine
Multi-player code improvements
Flight modeling and physics
Artificial Intelligence
Avionics
Sound engine
User Interface
Airbase modeling
Weather modeling

And more!

You probably have a lot of questions about Falcon BMS. Feel free to visit our FAQ page for answers.

-The Benchmark Sims Team

[TeaLeaf]

Looks real nice Naldo, lot of fun.

[Naldo]

Cheers TL,

I was not sure if we had any flight simmers at dMw, I know Sulky will jump on this.

I have been on the dev team for the last 5 years and its nice to finally be able to get others to enjoy the our fruits of the labor.

[sulky_uk]

how did i miss this post....downloading now...give me a week to do that

[sulky_uk]

or not as ive lost my login info...., new account time

[TeaLeaf]

or not as ive lost my login info...., new account time

I introduce you to Lastpass.  problem solved.

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